Strap binder or lock and record-check



A. A. eussom.

STRAP BINDER 0R LOCK AND RECORD CHECK. APPLICAHON FI'LED SEPT-27, 1920.

1,380,472. Patented June 7, 1921.

UNITED series Amos A. erlrsson, or rear wearer, Texas.

STRAP BINDER OB LOCK AND RECORD-CHECK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J une'7, 1921.

Application filed September 27, 1920. Serial no. 412,934.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, Amos A. GLIssoN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Fort l/Vorth, Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Strap Binders or Locks and Record-Checks, of which he following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved strap-binder or look and record-check; and the object is to provide a simple, effective, and comparativelyinexpensive means for closely and securely binding metal or other straps about or around and protecting the contents of boxes, packages, bales, trunks and the like when such articles are to be shipped or otherwise subjected to frequent or rough handling, and to afford -(1) means for preventing pilfering from shipping containers in the course of transportaion; (2) means whereby persons to be held responsible for such containers and their contents'in course of movements may be systematically and practically unerringly charged therewith; and (8) means for definitely' identifying and promoting prompt and proper deliveries of containers or shipments that may go astray. Another object is to provide devices by which packages or bales may be quickly bound and to provide devices which are adjustable to several sizes of bundles or bales or packages. Other objects and advantages will be fully explained in the following description and the invention will be more particularly pointed out in the claims.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings which form apart of this application.

Figure 1 is a perspective View of a box or package with one of the improved binders or lock and strap applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of the binder tube, showing the locations of the fastening devices within the tube. Fig. 3 shows a locking device which varies from the locking device shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a side view of a locking device which varies slightly from the locking device shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the locking device shown in Fig. 2, illustrating the record-check extensions thereof. Fig. 6 illustrates a band or binding device provided with more than one catch.

Similar characters of reference are used to indicate the same parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, a box or package 1 is shown bound with a band'2 and the tubular locking device 3. The tube 3 is preferably made of metal of a slightly springy nature so that it will yield suflicient to receive the catch of hook-formed ends of the band 2.

The lock includes a metallic or other strong strip or bar 5 which is attached at one end to the tube 3, as at 6, either'within the tube or on an extension of a portion of metal of the tube, the other end of the bar or strip being free and extended to form a recordcheck, as hereinafter explained. The locking bar 5 has a rack or row of teeth 7 on one side and a rack or row of teeth 8 on the opposite side and these racks lay'toward the opposite ends of the bar, as in Fig. 2. The band 2 with its hooks 4: may be caught in the tube 3 by anyone of the teeth 8 and the other end of the band 2 with its hook t may be caught by any one of the teeth 7 This construction provides a wide range of adjustments for packages or bales of different sizes. The band 2 with its hooks 4 and the teeth 7 and 8 are preferably made of spring metal so that when a hook is forced over a tooth 7 or under a tooth 8, the tooth and the book will both yield to let the hook pass and then the tooth will snap behind the hook. This will make an absolute seal because the locking bar 5 is securely attached to the tube 3, and in service the adjustment of the band 2 is such that when closely and tightly drawn or forced and locked by its catch or hook 4; to one or more of the teeth 7 within the tube 3 it so conceals and protects the rivets or fastenings 6 as to effectively prevent their breakage or release either through abrasion or methods of tampering, and because the inner dimensions of the tube 3 are such that when occupied by the strip or bar 5 and the band 2 is tightly pushed or drawn and lockedtherein by Ineansof the hook 4 and a tooth 7, aspreviously explained, the tube 3 will too closely encompass the bar 5 and the band 2 with its hook to admit of the release of the band from the tube either by self action, ordinary strain, or the use of instruments for tampering or picking purposes.

The lock 5'may consist of a single bar of sheet metal or other suitable substance folded on itself, the teeth 7 and 8 being the lock may be more resilient and yielding,

it may be made of a thin spring metal bar or strap 12 and folded upon itself so that the middle member 13 will extend from end to end thereof and include teethl and 15 on the two outside members 16 and 17 respectively.

The lock may be made of a bar 9 with teeth 10 and 11 forged thereon on opposite sides thereof as shown in Fig. 3.

In order to make the device serve also as a record-check with duplicate and triplicate portions that may be used as claim-checks and as means for definitely identifying trunks or other packages to which the invention is applied for safety, and also in order to prevent and detect unauthorized, (secret or dishonorable substitution of one of the devices for another in course of their use in transportation, the locking bar 5 is extended beyond the end of the tube 3 shown in Fig. 2 so that suitable numerals or letters or both may be stamped in duplicate or triplicate, simultaneously and uncrringly, in the several sections of the metal or other substance composing such extensions. In Fig. 2, there are members 20 and 21 which will be stamped in duplicate. In Fig. 4, there are members 22, 23, and 24 which may be stamped in triplicate. The members 20 and 22 may be perforated, etched, or weakened at a point 25 adjacent to the teeth or hooks so that they may be detachedand surrendered to the owner of the property to be transported or may be otherwise held against the person or persons to be held responsible for the property in course of movement, while the similarly stamped check members remain securely attached portions of the locking device in the tube 3. This triplicately stamped recording check feature importantly cooperates with the principles of safety, improved service, and the overcoming of dishonorable practices in relation to transportation to which the other features of the invention are devoted. Any desired letters, numerals or other matter may be stamped upon these record-checks either in the process of the manufacture of the locking devices of whose material they may be a part or they may be stamped by use of hand instruments or tools after manufacture. See Fig.

7 5 for illustration. The members 18, 16, and

17, and 20 and 21 of the locking device are riveted or otherwise securely fastened together at a point near the teeth 14 and 15, as shown at 26, so as not to interfere with the removal of members 20 and 22.

The band 2 may have in addition to the hook 4 other hooks 19 formed therein by folds of the metal or other substance of which it may be composed, as shown in Fig. 6, and in such cases the hooks 4L and 19 would engage more than one tooth of the lock. Various other changes in the sizes, proportions, construction and arrangement of the several parts may be made Without departin from my invention.

hat I claim, is,

1. A tubular locking device havinga bar secured therein and provided with yielding locking members and a band provided with yielding hooks thereon to engage the locking members within said tubular device.

2. A tubular locking device provided with yielding locking members therein and a band provided with resilient hooks thereon adapted to snap into locking engagement with said locking members when thrust into said tubular device.

3. A tubular locking device of resilient material, a barwithin and attached to one end of said tubular device and provided with looking members on opposite sides thereof, and a band provided with resilient hooks adapted to engage said locking members when thrust into said tubular device.

1. A tubular locking device, a bar within and attached to one end of said locking device and provided with looking teeth on opposite sides thereof, and a band provided with a hook on one end thrust into said locking device into locking engagement with the teeth on one side of said bar and a hook on the other end of said band thrust into the opposite end of said tubular locking device into locking engagement with the teeth on the other side of said bar.

5. A tubular locking device, a bar within and attached to one end of said tubular device and provided with looking members and having folded portions and one end projecting from said tubular locking device to form a record and claim check, and a band provided with a hook at each end thrust into said tubular locking device and into engagement with said locking members.

6. A tubular locking device, a locking and sealing member'provided with locking members located within said tubular de vice and attached atone end to said tubular "device and projecting from the other end of said tubular device to form recordcheck members, and a band provided with hooks on each end for engaging said locking members. I

n testimony whereof I set my hand this 18th day of September, A. D. 1920.

- AMOS A. GLISSON. 

